I’ve written about applying development-like problem solving to realms outside my day job before and another interesting case of that came up for me this week. I’ve been spending a lot of time over the last couple days at MSU’s Munn Arena for the annual MSU Pro Camp, where a bunch of former Spartans and affiliated […]
I’ve written before about branding a fake hockey team, but with this week’s announcement of the Grand Rapids Griffins’ formerly-annual alternate jersey design contest, I got to try my hand at doing it for an actual team. The contest is still running so, unlike usual, all of the images included in this post are watermarked […]
Earlier today, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels tweeted out an interesting look into Amazon’s past. If want to learn more about building for the long term you should start with Jeff Bezos’ 1997 letter to shareholders http://t.co/IjmT51ua8T — Werner Vogels (@Werner) July 28, 2014 Now, there are lessons to learn from that letter and I don’t […]
I’ve been writing a ton of late about the Trello API because I’ve basically been head-down in it for the last week. Today I discovered my new biggest annoyance with an otherwise awesome tool. Using the Trello UI, it’s really simple to move a card from one column/list to another on the same board. Click […]
Last week I published a bit of code that uses the Trello API to keep parent and child cards synced across a set of boards. It was a little piece of research that has absolutely taken off around the office so I’ve been expanding on it and demoing it and talking about it and generally […]
One of the things my team at work always seems to have a problem with is tracking our tasks and how they fit into the bigger picture of our team’s goals. We had these problems when we were using a bulletin board, we have these problems now that we’re using a single Trello board. We […]
One of the things that being a parent has taught me is that children’s bedtime stories have some weird stuff in them. Take Margaret Wise Brown’s classic, Goodnight Moon. The first half or so of the story is spent detailing the items that live in “the great green room” where a rabbit child is going […]
One of the things I love about my job – probably the thing I love most about it – is that it provides me interesting problems to solve. Yes, I like writing code, and writing clean code probably prevents having to solve problems in the future, but the code itself is just a tool to […]
I redesigned the header of this site earlier this week entirely because I was bored. I couldn’t focus on what I should have been writing and I decided a design project would help. What I came up with worked, though, so I went with it. The gradients in my previous header were dated when I […]
A couple weeks ago I briefly mentioned that it seemed like it made more sense to post about newly-completed projects to this blog rather than have a separate “Portfolio” section of the site. The idea is much the same as my thinking on code samples; it should be less about the outcome and more about the […]